2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
British primatologist whose 60-year study of chimpanzees at Gombe fundamentally changed our understanding of primate behavior — demonstrating that chimpanzees use tools, have complex social structures, and engage in violence — and who has since become the world's most prominent conservation advocate.
American neuroendocrinologist — Stanford (biology and neuroscience) — author of Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, and Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will — who studies stress hormones in baboons and writes the most accessible synthesis of biology and human behavior.